Sometimes it is hard not to be surprised by history’s mind games or by the things it coincidentally brings upon us. Today’s major epidemic that will define the rest of the lives of today’s youth is being compared to the plagues of the past. Indeed, the ways to avoid such an epidemic have not changed
It was December 2019. The first known coronavirus-related cases began to appear around a seafood market in Wuhan, an 11 million city in China. Four cases became dozens by the end of December. Doctors only knew that these were patients with virus-induced pneumonia who did not respond to normal treatment protocols. In fact, the real
When it comes to the coronavirus crisis, there are things that we know and things that we don’t. Some information is given, and some left in dark. As of the night of March 23, Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca’s statements about the course of the coronavirus epidemic in Turkey are as follows: -As of
The purpose of the World Health Organization (WHO) according to its Constitution, is to ensure that humanity achieves the highest possible level of health. The organization manages and coordinates international health work to achieve this goal.As promised by its name, the WHO, as one of the specialized institutions of the United Nations, should not be
Tokyo Olympic Games will be held between July 24 Aug. 9 as scheduled, despite the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, Uğur Erdener, the vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) told YetkinReport, elaborating on the justifications of the Committee. In an exclusive interview, Erdener said that the IOC considered “no immediate need” to postpone the Tokyo
An outbreak caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19, started in China earlier this year. To date, more than 130.000 cases have been diagnosed worldwide. A total of 123 countries officially reported infections. This outbreak, which first started as an epidemic, was turned into a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. What
Now its officially in Turkey, too, after 114 countries in the World. Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in early hours of March 11 that the first Turkish patient, a male, had been disinfected during a travel to Europe, not to China. Perhaps it will be too speculative to question a link between the year
Utku Perktaş The World Health Organization (WHO) released a “Disease-X ” warning some time ago. Disease-X: The name sounds like it’s come straight out horror scenarios in sci-fi movies but it real. It’s classified within the same category as other respiratory diseases such as Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever disease, Ebola, MERS, and SARS. According to